User:Megalibrarygirl/Nana Amba Eyiaba

Nana Amba Eyiaba is the Queen Mother of the Efutu and the Krontihene of the Oguaa Traditional Area in Ghana. As well as her role as Queen Mother, she has also worked also a professor of English at Cape Coast University and as the Deputy Regional Director of Education in Ghana.

As a Queen Mother (or queenmother), her job is to serve as a role model, provide counsel and guidance, nominating regional chiefs and to keep the leaders in their areas in check. Queen mothers have the authority to remove chiefs from their positions as well. She also advises the Ghanaian news media on professional ethics. Eyiaba explains that the tradition of Queen Mothers has existed for centuries from the area south of Ghana.

Eyiaba has advised people under her jurisdiction to help girls be successful in school by not giving them too many chores and also to give chores to boys as well. She also urges parents to enroll their children in school and to provide them with necessary school supplies.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/meet-the-queen-mothers-10000-amazing-women-taking-back-power-in/